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Who are you helping?
Rinku from India uses our educational materials to advance her career in IT. She wanted to take a picture of herself with a printout of our logo. However, she can't afford a printer so she took a picture of herself with her laptop displaying our logo and emailed us her picture.
Idyawati is a Doctoral candidate at the International Islamic University of Malaysia.
Using our site, she gets world-class educational materials for free.
She can spend her money on buying an extra semester instead.
Lu is from China and currently studies in the US: “For a girl from China, I fully understand the pain of buying a legal copy of a U.S. textbook.”
Progress for 2012:
The site has become such a big success that we are reaching a crossroads: The costs of running the project are constantly rising and we can't keep putting an ever-increasing amount of private money into it.This site is a labour of love and will never become profitable, only financially self-sustaining. We will never get paid for the tens of thousands of hours that we have put into the project since 2002, and we expect to put even more money into the project in the coming years. However, we hope that you will share the costs with us. We think that's fair: If we help you, you'll help us.
Public Relations and Media Coverage
- Top-down media strategy
- Bottom-up media strategy
- Viral media strategy
25.4%
Subtotal Public Relations and Media Coverage:
Production costs
- Travel, on-location video interviews, and conference attendance
- Editorial work, graphics and web development
- Industry talks and Design Battle
- Proofreading
- 3rd party tech consulting
- Legal counselling
- Insurance, various
58.5%
Subtotal Production costs:
Operating costs
- Hardware
- Licences
- Dedicated server
- 24/7 support for server
- Office (rent)
- Google Index
5.1%
Subtotal Operating costs:
Payroll costs
- Payroll costs
- Danish Tax (payroll costs for Rikke Friis Dam)
- Payroll costs
- Danish Tax (payroll costs for Mads Soegaard)
11%
Subtotal Payroll costs:
100%
Total:
Other expenses
The above-mentioned expenses do of course not include the 9 years we've put into coding our publication system (some 45,000+ lines of code), building and maintaining the website since 2002, building our network of authors, flying around the world to do video interviews, studying Danish copyright law, and the other things that have made our project a success.
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